IT'S BEEN 15 YEARS AND IT'S STILL LIKE THE FIRST TIME





Dearest Papa,

HAPPY, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!

I can't even emember the last time I gave you something like this. Parang ang tagal na. Wala lang... I just wanted to go back to the basics, back when we didn't have much of anything but we surely had more romance than responsibility. Back when we worked at being together like our life depended on it... kahit pagod, kahit puyat, kahit gutom. Remember?

We've gone a long way and everyday I am thankful that we're still together. Each anniversary, each day that passes, serves to make it difficult for me to even begin to imagine life without you. Thank you for bearing me out... my inconsistencies, yung mga maling diskarte ko. Thank you for supporting me in whatever I want, or even think I want to do. I know that a big part if what I have become is because I have been a part of you.

If there is a driving force in what I still want to do in my life right now, it's hardly getting rich and famous. That isn't my battle anymore, that is not the race I run.

There is my wish to be able to give my contribution in helping those dear to us have relatively comfortable lives... or at least pave the way for them to find the opportunities to make one for themselves.

And there is my wish that in the end, I will not disappoint you.

The meaning of my life is this.

I love you.